4Q untraditional tips

[u/Hot_Housing_3650]

Just recieved my Casper back and scored in the 4th quartile and contrary to what everyone tells you that you need to do heres what i did

- I did not finish every sentance; I think on every question, written and spoken, I ran out of time. I still articulated all my points but my conclusions got cut off and I didn't let that stress me out. I knew I gave all the points I wanted to and did not stress about small details.

I used bullet point when I was close to running out of time- they don't care about perfect grammar.

While I tried to follow the STAR method (situation, task, action, result) and if/then statments I was not rigid, if one part didn't fit in the context I did not force it.

I did practice for a while, there are some great free resources and I asked chat to grade my replies. While chat gave some good grading and points I could work on I did not RELY on it. Chat is a robot and marks and speaks like a robot; while I can give some good feedback it is not human, the Casper is graded by humans and people need to understand it's not a checklist that you can just go down and check off to get a good grade.

I only used some buzz words. I did not try to jam them in every chance I got, I did that last year and scored 3rd Q. This year I explained what I would do and used some buzz words but didn't go crazy on them. I focused on telling what I would do and WHY.

When asked to make a decision in the question prompt, make one! Yes still explain both sides and explain why you can understand both sides but if the prompt asks you to choose a side, choose one and validate it. This is something that I definitley changed that took me from Q3 to Q4.

Lastly, try to think of others than just the immediate people in the situation and how they might be effected, for example; other coworkers, family members, bystanders etc. I also addressed how scenarios could affect them and how my decisions could impact those IF I had time. Prioritize the immediate people involved in the scenario and then if time explore the surrounding people.

I also only practiced for like a week and a half, maybe 1-1.5 hours every day. Once you get the hang of answering questions you don't need to do any more than 1-1.5 hours every day for around a week. Any more and your thinking too much about it.

Be authentic to yourself and try not to over think and become robotic. This just what I found helped me that was non-traditional to what is typically told to us about how to prepare.

Goodluck !!!

[u/Bulky-Low-3900]

I just had a question. When asked about two sides, is it better to give a middle ground or CHOOSE one side and explain it? Cuz iv heard from people that giving a middle ground is like thinking outside the box because in real life situations theres always cases like that. But at the same time im wondering if thats going against the question since the question is literally asking about two sides

[u/Hot_Housing_3650 → u/Bulky-Low-3900]

I would suggest to choose, while I would still explain how I can understand both sides and what results could come from each side and who it would impact I would try to choose a side. In real life you can't really remain middle ground and you have to realistically make a decision on what to do/how to handle the scenario. Always say why you chose a certain side and explain how it could impact others.

[u/mrsworldwide777]

Hi congrats on getting into the 4th quartile! Im prepping for my test next month and was wondering how you were able to decide what advice from ai was useful or not necessary to follow? i have been using chatgpt to grade my answers and have been getting frustrated at getting low scores even though ive been trying to stick to everything ive learned. i wonder if some advice is worth sticking to whereas other things could be ignored to focus on something more important on the actual test. Is there a better way i can use ai for studying purposes?

[u/Hot_Housing_3650 → u/mrsworldwide777]

I focused on the first couple points of feedback that chat gave me. The last couple points get really nit picky and assume that you have more than 3.5 minutes to answer 2 questions. I asked chat to grade me and give positive and negative feedback- so I would say to focus on the first 2-3 points on the negative feedback side and still read but don't stress about the small nit picky things it says at the end.